Take out your sleds!

[Crow The Robot]

It being around winter time, my WM has a display of sleds, snowboards, et cetera. Now in the araea of the country where I live it's been pretty warm, and as yet at least we've had no snowfall. It's thunderstorming outside so i decide to help put returns away. As i drop off the cart for toys i hear this exchange.

SSL=sucky sled lady
TA: toys associate
am: Assistant manager
Me: me

SSL:<snootily to TA> Hey, you, how come you have sleds displayed?
TA: It's part of our winter time display, ma'am... Why? Do you need help finding anything?
SSL: NO! WHY WOULD I NEED HELP FINDING ANYTHING I"M NOT A MORON LIKE YOU!!!!!!!
TA: <a bit stunned> Ma'am?
SSL: DON'T USE THAT TONE WITH ME.
TA: I'm sorry?
SSL: Da-n right you are. Why do you have sleds out it's raining outside?
TA: Well, as I said, it's part of our win....
SSL: <Cuts him off> But my kids will see sleds and think that it'll snow tomorrow. And I have to tell them it won't!
TA: I am sorry to hear that.
SSL: Take the sleds DOWN NOW!!!!!!!!
TA: I can't take out the sleds it's what corpoate sent us for this time of the year.
SSL: Do you have pool toys???
TA: I don't think so, no.
SSL: F-ck you.
(TA shrugs goes back to zoning)
SSL sees me (oh, joy)
SSL:Hey you, why don't you have pool toys?
ME: Well ma'am we did a clearance on them in fall.
SSL: How come you have sleds.
ME: Because that's our winter-time mod.
SSL: SO? I demand that you help that doofus <referring to TA> get sled down.
ME: Ma'am we have to leave our departments as they are until corpoate tells us otherwise.
SSL: F-ck you!!! I am a customer, i am always right , do as i say now or I'll have you fired. I wanna see a manager.You god-amned idiot
<I page manager>
AM: Can I help you?
SSL: How come you have F-cking sled up.
AM: Ma'am please don't use profanity.
SSL: F-ck You!! <big mistake, or AM don't play> Your loser bast-ards over there wouldn't take down the display. I want them fired. And i am a customer i can talk however i want!!!
AM: Not here.Ma'am please leave the store now!!!
SSL: You can't tell me to leave.
AM: I can and i did, now leave or I'll have security escort you out.
SSL: Well, i am never shopping here again!!!!
AM: Leave!!!

so a happy ending , i guess.

[Cedophile]

Aww heck yeah, I love your AM.

[Jester]

SSL: <Cuts him off> But my kids will see sleds and think that it'll snow tomorrow. And I have to tell them it won't!

In other words, the bitch will actually have to be a parent to her children, and explain the facts of life. Well, boo hoo, lady....maybe it's time that you and your spawn learn some of the harsh realities of life.

[NightAngel]

Did she actually have any kids with her?

[MystyGlyttyr]

Me: "Why, yes ma'am, I'd love to take these sleds down." *pulls one down, beats woman about head and shoulders while yelling* "MA'AM I WANT TO GET THE SLED DOWN BUT YOUR HEAD WON'T GET OUT OF THE WAY!!"

...this is why I don't work retail anymore. *facepalm*

[friendofjimmyk]

Did she actually have any kids with her?

That's what I was thinking! Where were these "kids"? Were they freely roaming the store? WTF? I mean. Just. Wow. As Becky would say, serious "WTF-athon"

[T-Morksux]

My brain kind of hurts after reading this..... I just really don't understand why she would freak out like that freakin weirdo.

[Ree]

Odd story.

Some people around here seem to get some real winners in their stores.
I guess I will stick with my mundane existence. It's not nearly as exciting to tell the tales, but I prefer it that way if it means I avoid those types of people and wild experiences.

[Sofar]

I think this woman could lead a happier life in some variety of institution.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

And if it snows late, is this dry-pool diving team member going to demand you take down the pool toys and put the sleds back up?

No ma'am, we don't have any pool toys, but if you walk over here we have a nice

[Becks]

SSL: F-ck you!!! I am a customer, i am always right , do as i say now or I'll have you fired. I wanna see a manager.You god-amned idiot
<snip>
SSL: <snip>And i am a customer i can talk however i want!!!

Oh, she's one of THOSE!!!!!!

Where's the ?

[XCashier]

I think this woman could lead a happier life in some variety of institution.

Yes, the type with the nice, thick, soft walls and the oh-so-fashionable jackets with the extra-extra long sleeves.

Some people just are not satisfied until they can make some other poor sod unhappy. Kudos to the AM for booting her out!

[tenaciousb]

there is no way this woman is not a crystal meth addict, she could not be in a right state of mind

[AFpheonix]

I *really* hope she didn't have her kids with her. First of all, that kind of language shouldn't be used around kids. I mean, I can cuss a blue streak with the best of them, but I curb my enthusiasm around kids (and the general public, really. Cursing fits I save for video games, heh)

Second, what the hell kind of example was she setting there? Bringing up the next generation of SC's.

Ya, well, if she's this disfunctional in public, can you imagine the shenanigans she pulls when no one but her family is watching? Oy vey.

[Jester]

there is no way this woman is not a crystal meth addict, she could not be in a right state of mind

There are many ways she is not a crystal meth addict, actually.

It is easy for us to sit here and assume that people behave the way they do because of drugs, but the sad truth of it is that many people behave this way with no chemical influence at all. I know, I know, it's hard to believe that anyone would be such a complete asshat without having their brain twisted by some foreign substance, but the fact of the matter is that many people's brains are already twisted in just such a manner that that is normal for them.